A Cloud Resume Challenge Sequel? Using Classical Architecture

Completed the cloud resume challenge and are looking for what's next?
You might find that in a lot of interviews you're asked about things like:
- EC2
- VPC's
- Networks
- Firewalls
- IP Addresses
This variation of the cloud resume challenge works through a more classical architecture. Just like with the original cloud resume, this is not a tutorial, it's an overview, and the challenge is to read and research how to do put all the peices together yourself. Any questions, let me know!
Draft of the architecture diagram: docs.google.com/document/d/1G...
Cloud resume challenge main website: cloudresumechallenge.dev/
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▶ A PRACTICAL START WITH CLOUD / AWS
I highly recommend Stephen Mareeks AWS courses. If you’re a total beginner I recommend the “Certified Cloud Practitioner” otherwise the “Associate Developer”. If you plan to take the exam, I also highly recommend Jon Bonso’s practice exams:
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▶ WRITE A CLOUD RESUME THAT LANDS YOU THE JOB
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▶ BUILD YOUR RESUME (AS A PROJECT) USING CLOUD TECHNOLOGY
The “Cloud Resume Challenge” is a 12 step. I love the challenge, I’m an active member of the Discord, and I have a whole playlist on KZbin to help you complete the challenge. There is a book (it’s optional), but I strongly recommend it. Get the “Cloud Resume Challenge” book:
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▶ CLOUD BOOKS & COURSES COURSES
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[@openupthecloud]

Ciao folks! Whilst creating the video the project was still in progress, some feedback was given from the community, we decided to re-scope the project a little (removing RDS for instance) and consider the challenge more about web-hosting. You'll still learn all about VPC's and networking, which was the primary purpose. You can find the refined / updated project here: github.com/cloudresumechallenge/projects/blob/main/projects/networking/traditional-web-hosting-on-aws.md Some awesome community members updated the instructions with information on things like cost, and some added links (feel free to raise any PR's yourself!). It'd would cool in the future to have another extension that builds a sort of three-tier application, using containers and a relational database, for instance. This all being said, you can still use the original draft shared above, the content of the video, and/or the link I've just given to the refined challenge. As with all the cloud resume challenge stuff, it's down to you to "figure out" the details. Have fun building!

[@milesmalone4893]

Thanks for this Lou! This all sounds super cool and I can't wait to get started.

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks Miles! Heads up, there is a refined set of instructions here: github.com/cloudresumechallenge/projects/blob/main/projects/networking/traditional-web-hosting-on-aws.md That you might want to take a look at!

[@lwa.dev74]

Awesome! can't wait too get involved into this.... Thanks for the explanations and road map

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks, Lawrence ! Just wanted to also point you to this doc, which has some updated instructions! github.com/cloudresumechallenge/projects/blob/main/projects/networking/traditional-web-hosting-on-aws.md

[@ronitbanerjee2678]

Could you please bring a step by step tutorial series for the sequel challenge?

[@quattro8631]

Second this!

[@j6873]

It's supposed to be a challenege, not a tutorial.

[@jc.92]

where's the fun in that

[@joebywan]

Seems like a good start, working with auto scaling groups and building AMI's for them to use would be good too

[@openupthecloud]

Thanks, Joe. Totally agree! Will get the PR up into the open source repo soon - github.com/cloudresumechallenge/projects (it was moved after the last PR) With a few optional quests in there too for base image building, and auto-scaling as you mentioned! 🙏

[@openupthecloud]

Coming back to mention this is now in there (including the auto-scaling that you mentioned)! AMI's are not mentioned though, however, you could always open a PR to add a few notes if you want/could, Joe! github.com/cloudresumechallenge/projects/blob/main/projects/networking/traditional-web-hosting-on-aws.md

[@BadWeatherfreak]

Do you think this is a good challenge for someone with no IT background?

[@openupthecloud]

It can be, mostly depends what role you want. I created the challenge after requests from various people trying to get into cloud doing the original cloud resume challenge but not getting so much luck with only knowing the serverless services.